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Skyhigh Networks has raised $40 million in Series C funding co-led by Sequoia Capital and Greylock Partners. These two companies invested in Skyhigh’s $20 million Series B round last May. Salesforce.com also participated in this round.

Trifacta is a Data Transformation Platform company that has announced it has closed a $25 million Series C round of funding led by Ignition Partners. Existing investors Greylock Partners and Accel Partners also participated in this round of funding.Continue reading →

Synack is an online security company that has raised $7.5 million in funding. What Synack does is recruit hackers to help eliminate vulnerabilities on corporate networks. This round of funding was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers with participation from Google Ventures (new investor) and previous investors Greylock Partners, Allegis Capital, and Shape Security CEO Derek Smith.Continue reading →

According to TechCrunch, Airbnb, has closed on a $500 million round of funding led by private equity firm TPG with a $10 billion valuation. Airbnb is a fast growing website that lets users rent out their properties to make some extra cash and allow travelers to save some money. Airbnb has raised a total of $826 million. It is believed that Allen & Co. helped put together this round for Airbnb.

Citymapper is a mapping app company that helps people figure out public transportation in large cities. The company has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Balderton Capital with participation from Connect Ventures, Index Ventures and Greylock Partners.

Brandon Eich worked as CEO of Mozilla for a short period of time and now Mozilla has named Chris Beard as the interim CEO. Beard will also joined the Mozilla board of directors. Beard has worked through several positions at Mozilla. He joined Mozilla around eight years ago before joining Greylock Partners as an executive-in-residence in July 2013.

Just Eat is an online restaurant delivery company that has priced its initial public offering at 260 pence per share, which gives the company a market cap of £1.47 billion ($2.44 billion). Just Eat operates websites and mobile apps that lets users order food from local takeout restaurants. The IPO is expected to raise as much as £387.1 million if an over-allotment option is used in full. Just Eat said it would receive £100 million from the fundraising.Continue reading →

ClearSlide has raised $50 million in Series C funding led by The Social+Capital Partnership. Greylock Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Felicis Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, and Comcast Ventures also participated in this round. ClearSlide has raised a total of $90 million in funding. Mamoon Hamid of The Social+Capital Partnership will join ClearSlide’s board of directors. ClearSlide’s funding will be used for hiring and product development.